"The Grim Reaper is Coming" finally handed in a satisfactory answer. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the first week, "The Grim Reaper" cut 120 million yuan at the domestic box office, and according to the estimation of the DreamWorks statistics department, it is expected that "The Grim Reaper" can cut 260 million yuan at the domestic box office!

Don't feel less!

Horror movies have always been minority films, and to put it mildly, it's hard to wait for the halls of elegance!

What's more, such a situation in China!

can have a box office of over 100 million in the first week, which is already the highest peak of horror movies that can be reached at present!

Don't believe that in the novel, a horror movie is awesome at every turn, it's impossible.

Horror movies are also minority films in the world. Compared with mainstream plots, science fiction, magic and other movies, it is always small.

If a horror film can cut the box office against the sky, you can just take it as a brag, don't take it seriously!

Remember that we are talking about the box office, not the influence, and these two points cannot be confused!

Even if a horror film has a great influence, it is impossible to win a super high box office at the box office.

A minority is always a minority!

In reality, you may know that a horror movie is famous, but how many of you really go to the cinema to see it?

So the question is, why are there so many horror movies out there?

In terms of data, in addition to satisfying the appetite of a small number of horror fans, the bigger reason is that horror movies can also make money, but in a different way!

Indeed, the box office of horror movies is not good, but the peripheral DVD audio and video are amazing!

Strictly speaking, many horror movies focus on peripheral DVDs.

There is much more for collection than actually going into the cinema to watch?

Horror films belong to the minority, not that art films look down on a given nature, but in reality, the results are really not high.

Compared with some science fiction movies, magic movies, disaster movies, etc., which move more than a billion at the box office, horror movies are really insignificant!

You can't have it both ways, but fortunately, there are also surrounding audio and video, which makes up for the influence of minority films such as horror films!

To go a little deeper, do horror movies have awards? It doesn't seem to be? Unless there are special awards!

Just think about it, even such an awesome sci-fi movie is difficult to win awards, let alone horror movies!

There are many unspeakable things about horror films, such as directors who make horror films, it is difficult to really integrate into the director's circle.

To put it mildly, it's like a director who shoots an AV is not on stage.

It's just that the metaphor is a bit ugly!

Not only that, but the qualitative nature of horror movies is very powerful?

This characterization is especially highlighted in the director. As long as you, the director, make a highly influential horror film, for a long time after that, fans will subconsciously think that you are a horror director!

This is very powerful inertial thinking!

When Wang Meng first started as a director, he would rather make a "This Man is from Earth" even if he was not on the stage in his previous life, rather than try horror movies easily!

At least you can have a reputation as a genius when making pseudo-science fiction, and it will only be uncomfortable to make horror movies!

Of course, horror movies are also good?

The first is less investment, less investment means second, the second is easy to get started, easy to get started means third, the third is easy to shoot, simple and easy to shoot means fourth, and the fourth is not afraid of losing money?

Less investment, easy to get started, not afraid of losing money?

Not to mention the better innate conditions - the peripheral DVD of the main horror movie?

As for theatrical release, it may be the genre of all movies that requires the least cinema in addition to documentaries!

In short, there are many advantages and disadvantages, and this is the tangle of horror movies!

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Time was in a hurry, until the beginning of February 2011, "The Grim Reaper", which was released for a month, finally won a box office of 264 million yuan in China, a little more than expected!

In the whole world, "The Grim Reaper is Coming" won a box office of 170 million US dollars, which is equivalent to nearly 1.2 billion yuan at the box office. Together with the domestic 264 million yuan, this is a box office of 1.46 billion yuan.

According to the proportion of investment (plus publicity, post-production, etc.), it is 100 million yuan.

According to DreamWorks worldwide, the equivalent share ratio is 40%.

The gross income of "The Grim Reaper is Coming" is nearly 600 million yuan, and after subtracting the cost of 100 million, it is 500 million yuan.

Excluding the taxes and other miscellaneous things, the remaining net income has a net income of more than 400 million!

A movie earned 400 million, which is a very ungodly achievement!

Not to mention, the periphery is the big one, not to mention the filming of future sequels!

There is a report that ""Death is Coming" is another classic horror film case with a small investment and high box office. This marks that DreamWorks is becoming more and more sophisticated in the creation of horror movies, not to mention the net income of 400 million yuan in the first part, at least 2-400 million yuan in the next few years, and the success of the first part indicates the guarantee of future sequels, it can be said that a "Death is Coming" has leveraged the total amount of nearly 10 billion yuan in the future!"

The report is a bit exaggerated, but it has to be said that it is close!

Well, let's put it this way, each film can have a box office and DVD revenue of 600 million, and six films are nearly 4 billion in revenue, remember that this is the pure income that is being said, and the gross income is at least 10 billion or more!

In addition, in the future, there will be broadcasts, broadcasts, and even bigger game adaptations on the Internet, TV series adaptations, portrait rights, naming rights, etc.! Leveraging 10 billion is really not much.

Just over $1 billion?

After the five parts of "The Grim Reaper is Coming" in the previous life, more than a billion dollars have already been leveraged!

Of course, these may take the next ten or even twenty years of accumulation!

But a creative movie, is terrible to pry so much?

This time, you know why good movies are very profitable, and why our domestic film industry is becoming more and more exciting in the future, right?

More intuitively? How much do you think a "Ghost Blows Out the Lantern"? Is it even more outrageous? Movies, TV series, games, book publishing, and so on......

This is the rebellious thing after becoming an industrial chain, and it is also the reason why Wang Meng laid out the entertainment industry chain a long time ago!

In short, it's a temptation to!

Finally, do you know what makes money? Yes, it's creativity!

An idea, a book, a script, a flash of inspiration!

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Time rushed like water, and by the beginning of February, "Death is Coming" and "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" are a thing of the past!

Wang Meng's main work is still "Transformers".

I'm afraid of filming, I can't help it if I'm tired of shooting, he's not a god, and I can't talk nonsense - Kaka a movie is completed in a month, especially this kind of sci-fi blockbuster!

It can only be consumed little by little.

Not every movie is like "This Man Is from Earth" that was shot in 10 days? Not every movie is like "Brightman the Witch" and "Ghost Record" that were shot in 7 days......

Strictly speaking, "Transformers" is okay, have you ever heard of a movie that has been made for five years? Some documentaries have even been filmed for six or seven years? That's called time-consuming!

More than a year, plus a year and a half after its release, is "Transformers" not slow?

But......!

In February, there was also a movie that had been made for more than a year and was finally released!

Some time ago, the publicity was overwhelming, and the director's fame was great, and another movie appeared after several years. It immediately attracted the attention of countless people!

That's right, it's "Let the Bullets Fly"!

When this movie premiered, Wang Meng participated!

From the second day of the premiere, fame and word-of-mouth suddenly became a storm!

Jiang Wen's fame doesn't need much, and DreamWorks' publicity efforts are even more outrageous, and the product of the combination of the two is called - Monster!

Yes, Let the Bullets Fly is such a monster!

The reason is very simple, just ask the friends who have seen it, how many of them really understand it, or do they understand it within one or two times?

Not much, I'm afraid!

But Jiang Wen's movie is so awesome? Even if many people can't understand it, or it takes several times to understand it, it doesn't prevent many people from pretending to be forced, right?

Many people think, "Nima, why can't you read it? But it's weird and beautiful!" But is it okay for us to pretend that the movie is a cow?"

A lot of people think, just do it?

So - boasting that the movie is very good, the brain-disabled can't understand it, and the mentally retarded detection movie!

Just like Wang Meng's "Butterfly Effect", it is all this kind of product!

The whole month of February is the world of "Let the Bullets Fly", 100 million, 200 million...... 600 million, 700 million!

A month later, "Let the Bullets Fire" won the domestic box office of 720 million yuan, and it exploded!

Apart from Wang Meng, who else can create such a miracle in China? The most certain is Feng Xiaogang's "Spider-Man", and now Jiang Wenjie is the first!

In the previous life, "Let the Bullets Fire" only had a total box office of more than 660 million, and this life has far exceeded, and it is expected that there will be a month of release time and can win 800 million at the box office.

As a result, it has been rumored and prosperous since the beginning of the movie!

All kinds of reports are wonderful, Ge You, Feng Xiaogang (cameo), Chow Yun-fat, Jiang Wen, Carina Lau and other movie stars and actresses, not to mention Chen Kun, Liao Fan and other future actors, in short, the lineup is extremely powerful, the plot is extremely powerful, and the production company and director are extremely powerful!

With such an incomparably powerful combination, there are not many that dare to say that it is not good-looking!

What's more, there are still a lot of people who pretend to play soy sauce to mix!

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A report focused on the report - "Let the Bullets Fly" is a film that is difficult to define and classify, because Jiang Wen's unique personality and creative talent make this film have unique personality traits. This means that it is difficult for people to judge the film according to the conventions of the established genre films, so the various interpretations of it are varied and all-encompassing. ”

Of course, there are also reports that "Let the Bullets Fly" is also definitely an imperfect film, and although the charm of the actors is enjoyable, the imagery of the film is exciting, and the humorous characters and language make people laugh, the flaws of the plot and narrative are equally obvious.

However, Jiang Wen's talent and passion are so irresistible that they are so strong that people can't help but understand his works in his logic, and in his way, he understands the unreasonable flaws of "Let the Bullets Fly".

"Let the Bullets Fly" is like a live-action cartoon movie. Jiang Wen made an adult's fantasy so innocent and colorful, and so serious and awe-inspiring. ”

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As for the box office, hehe? You say the box office of such an awesome movie, it's too cheesy!

Even Jiang Wen's famous words in the previous life - "Stand and make money", also appear here.

Whether it is this kind of praise or criticism, all in all, it promotes the growth of the box office and popularity of the movie!

And Wang Meng personally paid attention to the study of "Let the Bullets Fly", which he thinks is Jiang Wen's fairy tale dream!

The film's dreamy opening, in which a white horse pulling a steam train through the mountains and forests, is accompanied by a lyrical soundtrack by Hisaishi, which seems to have been transformed from the cinematic imagery of Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki.

And then the huge hot pot, bandits wearing mahjong masks, train carriages flying in the sky, and even white-faced women beating the Japanese oni taiko drum to welcome guests, quietly observing the new county magistrate's Goose City Ichiba......

Whether it is the image, the plot, the characteristics of the characters, or the imagination of the picture, it all has a strong exaggerated cartoon style. The kind of fantasy adventure story with the theme of fighting between good and evil seems to be in the same vein as Japanese "hot-blooded" cartoons.

Wang Meng felt that this life was like a dream.

Just as he devoted himself to the film industry, movies are actually dreams, and with this original intention, there is today's DreamWorks!

And "Let the Bullets Fly", Wang Meng thinks that Jiang Wen is dreaming!

Jiang Wen is the director who understands this essence the most.

With his outstanding talent and serious creation, he fulfilled a naughty adulthood dream.

This dream does not educate people on how to be kind, does not flaunt the complexity of human nature, does not talk about harmony and the overall situation, but is only responsible for what the heart yearns for, and ensures that this heart yearning will not be emasculated, and will reach the other side happily.

With such respect for dreams and the simplicity of defending dreams, how can we care about the imperfection and immaturity of the dreamer?

It's like you can't dislike a child full of vitality and creativity, you can't dislike his clear distinction between right and wrong, full of heroic ideals, even if he is a little reckless and naïve.

What's more, when he is surrounded by obscene and utilitarian adults and some dwarfs who don't want to make progress!

Why don't you like it?

Wang Meng has watched "Let the Bullets Fly" many times in his last life, after all, is he famous for being spicy?

Anyway, there is also an element of pretending, they all say that they are good-looking, and he also follows the crowd!

That's what I realized after watching it many times!

Just summarize the 'load'!

It wasn't until the time slowly entered April 2011 that "Let the Bullets Fly" slowly entered a peaceful stage, and later "Let the Bullets Fly" scored 8.8 points on Douban, which can be regarded as a double harvest of fame and word-of-mouth!

However......!

The world can't revolve around one person!

You sing and I go on stage, this is the same melody for thousands of years!

No one can be beautiful forever, even Wang Meng has a time when he is dormant, just like in recent months, he has been dormant and devoted himself to making movies.

In April, another bull fork character came out on stage!

That's right, it's Feng Xiaogang who came with "Spider-Man"!

It's finally his turn!

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